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Inspired by CRW claiming that "The Stone Roses reforming would be betetr than sex" which is wrong because the Roses reforming would probably be awful, but also perpetuates the meme that sex is the best thign evah evah. Is it? What things are better than sex if it isn't? Do we only think sex is that great because we don't have as much of it as we think/fear other people are having?

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Other people are having sex?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

haha are we REALLY gonna have this discussion?!
(xpost)

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Sadly we're probably not, mark, but I think it'd be interesting.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

It's just a tired old phrase that means nothing. I suppose it acts as a signifier of idiocy.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

the unspoken clause at the end of "better than sex" is "with CRW"

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

The 2004 Stone Roses Reform Bill is backed by the Trilateral Commission.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i dunno, something about the idea of a bunch of internet people deciding to sit down and re-evaluate this whole sex thing makes me giggle. hello, it's not a construct, it really is that fun!

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

It's just one of those terms lazy journalists use, like "Band A is like Band B on acid", etc.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

But what if Band A really IS like Band B on acid?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

speaking of lazy journalists, I didn't do the dishes last night.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

It's better than having sex with Band B on acid.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread is better than sex with Calum on acid.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Everything is better than sex.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh doubtless sex is good fun, mark, and can be great, but does anyone actually think it really is the Best Thing Evah? And if everyone does why aren't we in the garden rutting like stoats at all times?

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I can think of loads of stuff thats better than sex. On the other hand, maybe I just havn't had really great sex yet.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Sex is better than sex!

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

speak of band A on acid, I recently saw some journo saying (he was actually quoting some RS book) that the Pixies are like "the Beach Boys on acid."
So, uh, they sound like "Good Vibrations"?

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

And if everyone does why aren't we in the garden rutting like stoats at all times?

if only.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

butter then sex

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

If The Pixies are like The Beach Boys on ANY drug, it's PCP cut with meth-amphetamine and estrogen.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I think that the idea of sex is the best thing evah evah evah, Plato's Form of sex, if you will. The reality of the situation is, unfortunatly, very different.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Stoat sex, C or D?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

butter then sex

guns before butter

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Did anyone see the Lee & Herring TMWRNJ episode where they tested the hypothesis that Lee Evans was 'like Norman Wisdom on acid', CCTV footage of the spiked Wisdom not revealing a hyperative loony comic genius but a frightened old man.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"Mom, these cookies are better than bad sex."

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

bros before stoats

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

so what things are better than sex?

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Guns then butter then sex. Which state has this as its motto?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Butter-sex with stoats on acid.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"Dad, this fishing trip is better than sex."

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

What the fuck is a stoat?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

And, more pertinantly, who wants to have a Rutting In The Garden Like Stoats Party with me? Sod Cuddle Parties.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I read that as "I want to fuck a stoat", Jordan.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"Dad, this fishing trip is better than sex."

"Wanna bet, son?"
"Dad, NO!!!"

(xpost think weasel-ferret-ermine wing of the rodent family)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

But it's like an otter, onyl randy.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay, I'm coming to that party!

Um, will there be gurls?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

And stoats?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread is so british it might as well be boiled grey.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

If gurls say Yes, there will be gurls.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

If you stoat them, they will come.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"to stoat" = verb of the day.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I read that as "I want to fuck a stoat", Jordan.

This not surprise me.

Stoat-fucker.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Being boiled grey is better than having butter-sex with a stoat whilst holding a gun.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Define please.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I wanna stoat you up.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

http://stoatse.cx

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Damnit, not real.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I will now take to substituting stoat for minx when cooing at the gf.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"Oooh, you dirty stoat."

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The stoat

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"Ma biche, tesoro, my little stoat."

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone remember a childrens story about a stoat that turned white, and it couldn't work out why? If memory serves, the stoat got paranoid and was shunned by the rest of the animal community.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I think we should redefine stoat for the masses.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

a quick ggl src:

Why Coffee Is Better Than Sex
10 Reasons Chocolate is Better than Sex
Top Ten Reasons Hockey is Better Than Sex
... Why Baseball Can Be Better Than Sex.
Stage better than sex: Mel C
Sleep Is Better Than Sex Because
Why Hack Mode Is Better Than Sex
dining out Better than sex?
Reasons why werthers is better than sex
Hunter S. Thompson, Better Than Sex
Is Windsurfing better than Sex?
Top Ten Reasons Why Studying is Better Than Sex!
Laptops in bed, better than sex ;)
Soccer better than sex
A Marching Band Is Better Than Sex Because...
Top 20 Reasons E-Mail is Better than Sex
ChessBase.com - Chess News - Better than sex?!
Ikke bedre enn sex
Why Golf is Better Than Sex! on the AardvarkSport.net Sports Forum
Why Trick-or-Treating Is Better Than Sex
DETOX: Why Sex is Better than Gods
Beer Is Better than Sex Because...
Better than Sex Banana Bread
LA BUTACA - Mejor que el sexo
Why SKYDIVING is better than Sex !
Comment Computers: are they better than sex?
Opera: It's Better Than Sex
Almost Better Than Sex Cake
News Haiku: Better than sex
'Sex' would be better without all the clutter
Is Salami and Eggs Better Than Sex? Memoirs of a Happy Eater ...
The Army - Better than Sex?
Top Ten Reasons Why Syntax Is Better Than Sex
Better than sex - food lures females to apple orchard trap

and most puzzling...
anything's better than sex cake

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I go away for an hour and the id rampages.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Sex cake is OK sometimes.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Only if it is moist.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

That article doesn't say anything about rutting.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

food lures females to apple orchard trap

This is the scariest thing I've heard today, like some stoatified Hansel and Gretel.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Why Trick-or-Treating Is Better Than Sex

this disturbs me.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I should not have mentioned stoats, should I?

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"Trick or treat?"
"I've got something better, kids"

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, Michael...

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

ha HA, I was listening to ODB, so the first thing I did when I saw Gygax's post was say (out loud): "I'm rollin' with you"

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, Michael...

Me? What?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I think another Michael was the reference point.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

*Whew*

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

http://i.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/040420/152044__mj_l.jpg

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

MJ was the 69th post! Tee hee hee!

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

on no! EYELESS! oh NO!!!

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The only things better than sex are sex with the right extras - like loving the person you are having sex with. Or an extra woman.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Ahh, what would we do without Martin?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm,
http://www.taxidermy.org.uk/Photos/stoat.jpg
http://i.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/020819/161625__michael_jackson_l.jpg

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 22 April 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

we would do weasels and michael jackson without martin????

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 22 April 2004 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

THE HORROR

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 April 2004 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

weasels ripped my facelift

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 22 April 2004 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I was thinking that it was a suggestion that, better than adding an extra woman was adding a weasel and Michael Jackson. I mean, that's not my taste, but it might be Johnney's.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 22 April 2004 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread had better have got healthy by the time I get back later this evening.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 April 2004 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not a weasel, its a stoat!

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 22 April 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

i once thought that the feeling whilst being on an E was better than sex. But now that I don't do it, I can live without it. I can't say the same about sex...

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 22 April 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

What about sex on E?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 April 2004 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it? I've never sone an E - far too scared meself. Is it better than sex, or does it kill your brane? Or is this for another non-sex-related thread?

xpost - I have heard that sex on E is mind-numbingly good, mind.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 22 April 2004 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

It occurs to me that I didn't extend what I said earlier to include the possibility of having threesome sex with someone you love deeply involved. I have been fortunate enough to have had this experience (many times, in fact). Should I be seeking now to get a threesome with two people I am deeply in love with? I think that might be beyond my (maybe almost anyone but Laura's!) good fortune.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 22 April 2004 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Give it a go Michael. I'm sur eyou'll have fun.

*looks at my single bed*

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 22 April 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.dork.com/wallweasel/weasel_wedding.jpg

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 22 April 2004 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)

http://fbaker.best.vwh.net/MinervaMink/Images/ladadededee.gif

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 22 April 2004 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

the problem with sex is that you can go months without having it and be fine and then you have it once and suddenly you're like scarface with the big pile of blow

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 23 April 2004 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

bingo

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 23 April 2004 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes. I don't see it as a problem, though.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 23 April 2004 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I find the idea of sex with anyone but someone I'm deeply in love with not very attractive at all.

I'd far rather see The Stone Roses than have a one night stand.

― CRW (CRW), Friday, 23 April 2004 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

you poor thing.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 23 April 2004 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

He'd rather see the Stone Roses have a one night stand? That's some queasy voyeurism there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 April 2004 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

*cough*sour grapes*cough*

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 23 April 2004 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you ever noticed that when Jacko smiles, his cheebones move with the smile and move up his face and almost into his eye sockets?

This has nothing to do with stoats or sex, I just wanted to ponder.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 23 April 2004 04:20 (twenty-two years ago)

He only smiles when having sex with a stoat.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 23 April 2004 05:58 (twenty-two years ago)

okay so what *is* better than sex?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 23 April 2004 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

ME.

Nah not really.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 23 April 2004 06:10 (twenty-two years ago)

girl, i'm too drunk right now for you to be mentioning yourself on a sex thread without me making some daft innuendo but i'm trying real hard not to.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 23 April 2004 06:16 (twenty-two years ago)

the only thing i can think of that is better than sex is imagining and anticipating having sex

― oops (Oops), Friday, 23 April 2004 06:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Oops - dont tell me things like that! Nyeh heh.

OK I really should leave work and go get drunk at home myself.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 23 April 2004 06:29 (twenty-two years ago)

the problem with sex is that you can go months without having it and be fine and then you have it once and suddenly you're like scarface with the big pile of blow

Haha, my last week to thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 23 April 2004 06:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, the last time I saw the Stone Roses, Reading Festival. Yeah, that one. Every shag I ever had was better. There. case closed

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Although, thinking about it, I remember running away and laughing, with my girlfriend. So maybe...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Not sour grapes at all my dear, just the way some people are.

― CRW (CRW), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

What is better than sex? MORE SEX!!!!

Sex bad enough that even the reformed stone roses wd be better? UNIMAGINABLE!!!!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 23 April 2004 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=stoat&f=1

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 26 April 2004 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Byootifool.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 26 April 2004 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought you might like that. Nothing like validating ephemera.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 26 April 2004 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn right.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 26 April 2004 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

What CRW meant was that the Stone Roses reforming would be better than sex with him. Make of that what you will, and you will.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Shovelling bees dow my dick is better than sex with him.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

wtf

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

otm

― teh_kit looks like shit (and that's a good thing) (g-kit), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

If the stoat fits...

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, my last week to thread.

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), April 23rd, 2004 2:39 AM. (jaymc) (link)

O RLY?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Lots of things are better than sex. Playing a really good gig is better than sex. Recording a thing of beauty is better than sex. Even a really lucious chocolate cake is better than sex.

People who use sex as the benchmark of the most pleasurable of all experiences clearly haven't had enough other sublime experiences.

That said, I'd hardly count a Stone Roses gig as sublime.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, I can think of things that are "better" than orgasm (which is just a neural/physical thing after all) but not necessarily better than sex. In fact, I think I wish life was more like sex, generally.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Lots of things are better than sex. Playing a really good gig is better than sex. Recording a thing of beauty is better than sex. Even a really lucious chocolate cake is better than sex.

But wouldn't you gladly top all of these things off with a really nice shag?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

No.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

ILX chirps = the worst kind of chirps

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

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